Remember when the Attorney General joked about how he wanted a sixth season of "The Wire," and David Simon was all, "I'll make it if you stop the misguided, destructive and dehumanising prohibition of drugs".

If you're a fan of HBO's Treme, and internet people do seem to enjoy it, but don't get some of the many New Orleans-centric references made on the show, the Times Picayune's Dave Walker publishes a handy guide, titled "Treme Explained," that goes live shortly after each episode.

David Simon, the former journalist who brought "Homicide," "The Corner," "The Wire," "Generation Kill," and "Treme" to television, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the $500,000 award given to innovators that is more widely know as the "genius grant.

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (ABC, Friday) -- "Jamie is shocked by the response of students of Huntington High School when he asks them to choose between a lunch menu of processed junk food or fresh fare.